Improvement in devices for attaching steels to corsets



www wie mi @tim WILLAM A. srARRn'rfr AND HELEN n. STARRETT, orLAWRENCE,.- KANSAS.

Letters Patent. No. 107,974, dated October 4, 1870 antedated September24, 1870.

` IMPRQVEMENT IN Devices Fou ATTAcHlNe-STEELS To cRssTs.

` The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom 4it may concern.-

Be itknown that we, WILLIAM A. Summer and HELEN E. STAILRETT, ofLawrence, in the county of `Douglas and State of Kansas, have invented anew i and improved Means for Attaching Steels to Corsets; and wedoherebydeclare that the following is a full,

clear, and exactA description ofl the `construction and operation ofthesame, reference being had to the aocompanying drawing making a partof this specificat-ion, in Which- Fgurel is a side elevation, showingthe steel and key; and y Figures 2 and 3 are detached views, showingdifferent methods of` attaching theloops to the steel.

This invention consists `in an improvedA corset-steel, and in certainmeans for readily attaching it to or detaching it from the corset, forthe purpose of enabling `the steel'y to be used with different corsets.

Toevery corset are attached,.by means'of the loops Y and'key, as beforedescribethtwo of these steels, one

to each edge. f

The corset is fasteuedaround the wearer-s body in the usual manner, byhooking the two steels together.A

Corsets furnished with oursteels yare fastened 'in the same way ascorsets provided with any other kind of steels.` l Y Our invention hasnothing to .do with connecting steel with steel1 but relates only toconnecting rthe steels with the corset. `Inthe drawing- 1 Aisthc-corsetfsteel, constructed in the usual man- I ner, and havingmetallic loops c, tig. 1, riveted to it, so as to project beyond oneedge. The loops may be" formed on the corsets, as shown at d, iig.2,'insteadof-being riveted to them, or passed through the steel andriveted or clinched on thelother side, 'as shown at e, fig. 3. Y

'lheloorset B is furnishedV with orilces like buttonholes, through whichthe loops are passed. A metal rod or key, a, is thenrun'through theloops, thus binding the steeland corset together. The key a, has a head,c', with ashoulder, and the end loop has a catch, d', which takes and*holds the key by means of the shoulder, the elasticity of the keyserving to-press it against the loop.

The method of attaching the steel to the corsct'is thus rendered quitesimple and easy. The process of detaching is equally so, 'it being onlynecessary to withdraw the shoulder a from the catch d', when the keymaybe drawn out of the loops without diiculty,

and thecorset slipped ol from thesteel.

Having thus described our invention,

That we claim as new, and desire to secnre'by Let; `ters Patent, is-

rIhecorset-steel A, provided with the loops d, and combined with the keya, in the mannerv and' for the purpose `set forth. f

W. A. STARRETT.

H. E. STARRETT.

Witnesses: I

' PAUL R. Bnooxs,

. B. McALLAs'rER.

